The entrance to Parliament earlier this year of Golden Dawn, which holds of 18 of the seats in the 300-seat Parliament, is «one of the darkest pages in the history of Greek democracy,» Glezos said.

The 89-year-old wartime resistance veteran, best known for removing a flag bearing a swastika from the Acropolis in 1941, said Golden Dawn was not purely a fascist or Nazi group «but a party that essentially violates the good of the nation and with characteristics of a criminal organization which does not hesitate to plot crudely, exploiting the instincts of a society that is collapsing."